Manufacturing Operations Lead: Quality & Safety

• The Operations Supervisor oversees all aspects of day-to-day production, manufacturing, and distribution of personnel activities.

• Leads team meetings and facilitates continuous improvements in the process with emphasis on quality and reduction of cost and waste.

• Responsible for ensuring the production of a quality product and meeting production/customer specifications while achieving plant productivity objectives.

• Ability to identify and correct unsafe situations and/or behaviors and model safety in all you do.

• Report, evaluate, and when necessary investigate all work-related accidents by identifying the factors contributing to the accident and implement corrective action.

• A team player possessing excellent communication skills and having the ability to plan, prioritize and organize work effectively.

• Able to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, work under pressure and meet deadlines.

• Assess situations, make judgements, analyze problems (not just symptoms), make logical decisions and carry out the decision made.

• Work as a team with other supervisors to achieve company goals and objectives.

• Thoroughly communicate all needed information with the other shifts.

• Work with management, maintenance, quality, and engineering to solve production challenges.

• Enforce company policies and rules.

• Ensure safe working conditions and rectify any issues.

• Responsible for the training, motivation, discipline, and measuring of employees’ performance as necessary to complete written evaluations of full-time, direct reports under the guidance of the Value Stream Manager.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field (Engineering, Business, Management) preferred.
• High School Diploma/GED required.
• Minimum of 2+ years of supervisory or leadership experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Strong decision-making skills and proven ability to prioritize department needs.
• Excellent verbal & written communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word).
• Experience with Work Force “Time Keeping and Attendance” is a plus.
• Experience with Success Factors is a plus.

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Hard Skills

• supervisory experience
• leadership experience
• decision-making skills
• production management
• quality assurance
• safety management
• performance evaluation
• process improvement
• cost reduction
• waste reduction

Soft Skills

• communication skills
• interpersonal skills
• organizational skills
• teamwork
• adaptability
• problem-solving
• judgment
• planning
• prioritization
• motivation